Restaurant Website Design
Most restaurant websites fail at the same moment: a hungry person on a phone cannot find tonight’s opening hours or the menu, so they close the tab and pick somewhere else. A restaurant site has one job before it has any other — answer "are you open, what do you serve, and how do I book" in the first few seconds.
Built for independent restaurants, bistros, pizzerias and family-run kitchens. Describe your business in a sentence and a complete site is written and designed for you — then you edit every word of it.
Build my website free →What a restaurant website needs
Every one of these is included from the first draft. Nothing here is decoration — each answers a question your visitors are already asking.
A menu that is real text, not a photo
A menu uploaded as a JPG or PDF cannot be read by Google, cannot be searched, and pinches shut on a phone. Yours is written as text, so someone searching for a dish in your town can actually land on you.
Opening hours where the thumb lands
Hours are the single most-viewed thing on a restaurant site. They belong near the top, not in a footer, and they need to say what happens on public holidays.
Booking that takes one tap
A phone number that dials on tap, or a reservation form that does not ask for an account. Every extra field loses covers.
Photographs of the food and the room
People decide with their eyes. A gallery of real dishes and the actual dining room does more work than any paragraph of copy.
Location with a map and parking
Address, a map that opens in their phone’s map app, and one honest line about parking or the nearest station.
Reviews where they can be seen
Pull your best reviews onto the page instead of hoping people go looking for them elsewhere.
Three mistakes that cost restaurant websites customers
These come up again and again in this trade, and all three are avoidable.
- Putting the menu behind a PDF download — it is invisible to search engines and painful on a phone.
- A full-screen video that delays the page on a mobile connection, which is where most of your visitors are.
- Leaving festive or seasonal hours unchanged for months, which quietly teaches regulars not to trust the site.
Six restaurant designs to start from
Every industry ships with six distinct designs. Pick one as a starting point — the layout, colours, wording and images are all yours to change afterwards.
How you get your restaurant website
Describe the business
One or two sentences about your restaurant is enough. No brief, no questionnaire.
Get a complete first draft
Pages, sections, images and written copy — not an empty template waiting for you to fill it in.
Edit anything, then publish
Change any word, section or colour yourself. Publish to a free address or connect your own domain.
Restaurant website questions
Do I need a separate page for the menu?
Usually yes. A dedicated menu page gives you something to link to from social posts and gives search engines a page that is unmistakably about your food. Keep a short highlights section on the home page as well.
Can I take table bookings through the site?
You can take booking requests through a form, and you can link out to whichever reservation system you already use. The site does not lock you into one provider.
How do I show a menu that changes weekly?
Edit the menu section directly whenever it changes. It is text on a page, so a change takes a minute and does not need a designer or a new PDF.
Will it work on phones?
Yes, and that matters more here than in most industries — restaurant searches are overwhelmingly done on a phone, usually within a few hours of eating.
Can I sell gift vouchers or takeaway online?
You can link to whichever ordering or voucher service you use. The website is the front door; it does not replace your ordering system.
Do I need to write all the text myself?
No. Describe the restaurant in a sentence or two and a full first draft is written for you, which you then edit in your own words.
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